Reshaping the Female Body

The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery

Kathy Davis

• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135207007
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften
• Thema: Feminismus & feministische Theorie

Reshaping... looks at women's involvement in cosmetic surgery and raises the question of why women put themselves under the knife for operations which are painful, risky and expensive and often leave them in worse shape than before.

Index

A

abdominoplasties, 26

adolescents: decision-making on breast augmentation, 124-25, 141

agency: femininity and, 60-62, 62-64; as theme of study, 11; women’s decisions on cosmetic surgery, 117, 157

Andersen, Hans Christian, 65-66

anesthesia, 15, 27

antisepsis, 15

B

Bar-On, Bat Ami, 179-80

Barthes, Roland, 46

Bartky, Sandra, 51, 62-64, 172, 173-74

Baudrillard, Jean, 46

beauty: as cultural discourse, 54—56; femininity and politics of, 49-52; feminist critiques of cosmetic surgery, 172—75; history of in Western culture, 390

—41; as oppression, 52-54; psychoanalysis and, 43-45; social psychology and, 42—43; sociology and, 45-49; women’s decisions on cosmetic surgery, 88-92, 157

body contouring, 26-27. See also liposuction

body: cosmetic surgery and view of as commodity, 157; cosmetic surgery and women’s experiences of embodiment, 96—114; sense of self in relation to, 59—60; social psychology and image of, 42; sociology and beauty, 47—49

Bordo, Susan, 54-56, 178

Branca (Sicilian physician), 14

breast augmentation surgery: history of, 24—26; narratives on decision-making process, 119-36, 137-58; side effects and dangers of, 27—28; women’s decisions on cosmetic surgery, 3-4. See also silicone implants

breasts, femininity in Western culture and, 9, 60. See also breast augmentation surgery; silicone implants

C

Calvinism, 90

Chapkis, Wendy, 52—54

chemical peeling, 24

Cher, 4, 18

chivalry, medieval cult of, 39

choice: feminist critiques of cosmetic surgery, 164—72; women’s narratives on cosmetic surgery, 137—58. See also decision-making

class: breast augmentation surgery and, 9; health insurance and cosmetic surgery, 6

clothing, sizing of and cosmetic surgery, 78-80

collagen treatments, 24

complaints, in women’s narratives on breast augmentation surgery, 147-49

computer imaging, 17, 130

consumerism: media promotion of cosmetic surgery, 20; sociology and beauty, 47-49

cosmetic industry, 40

cosmetic surgery: as big business, 20—22; choice and informed consent in women’s narratives on, 137—58; cultural critique of, 28—29; developme...